Testimonies of Healing

With a desire actively to express my gratitude I write this testimony. It is seven years since I had the joy of learning that God lovingly governs all, and that the evidence before the material senses is not true.

This testimony is given by one who has enjoyed the blessings of Christian Science for many years and is humbly and sincerely grateful for all the help received. At the time of the influenza epidemic in 1918 our family of five was confined to the house for many weeks.

My experience in Christian Science began as the result of interest awakened by a friend who had been a student for some time. I had not so much a feeling of need for healing as a desire to know more about God and my relation to Him.

Christian Science has given me so much for which to be grateful that I feel impelled to write this testimony. My privileges have been great, for I have known this truth since infancy, and had eighteen years in the Christian Science Sunday School.

To say that Christian Science found me is to speak literally. At the time there were several problems which seemed very real and which I could see no way to solve— not physical problems, but ones in other lines.

My first treatment in Christian Science was for indigestion. The healing was instantaneous and has proved permanent.

More than sixteen years ago, while living on the Pacific Coast, I was to mortal sense in a hopeless condition. The malady was cancer of the womb, dropsy, which caused me to be swollen to twice my normal size, an asthmatic condition, and a heart trouble so severe that I had to be propped up with five pillows in order to get my breath.

I am so very grateful for the many demonstrations and proofs of God's protecting care which I have experienced in the years I have known Christian Science that I feel I must give my testimony. My first healing took place in February, 1909, after the attending physician said I had one chance in a thousand to recover from an impending operation for acute appendicitis.

Christian Science was introduced to me at a time of great need. I had been suffering for three years from injuries caused at the birth of our little boy.

With the desire to express some measure of the sincere gratitude I feel for Christian Science and its blessings, I wish to testify to some of the beneficial experiences which have come to me. The protection afforded by the study of Christian Science has made the need for physical healing very infrequent, but whenever that need has occurred, it has been met quickly and completely.